This is the type of reporting we honestly expected from James Brady‘s media column. But, over at Forbes it’s Rich Karlgaard reporting from the Heathrow airport in London that puts a little extra step on our day.
He was mediating a panel discussion about the internet in which Tom Glocer, CEO of Reuters explains how consumers want to create their own media, internet is changing, bloggers, yada yada. And then he busted out (yep!) his MySpace profile.
Glocer told the audience of 260 gathered at the Landmark Hotel to study three websites that herald the consumer-driven future: www.myspace.com; www.stupidvideos.com; and www.ourmedia.com. Glocer showed us his own blog page on myspace.
The media world has been changed forever, Glocer said, by the Internet’s scale of distribution and by the phenomenal ease of sear
Karlgaard was all like, “wait but my daughter’s middle school said MySpace is bad? Why does Glocer have one?”
(To which we respond, MySpace is bad because girls like Emma Watson pretend to be 21 when they’re really 15. But, that is beside the point.)
Our main interest was in proving Glocer’s simple searching theory, which we did by performing a simple search to find his MySpace profile. (It was so simple, in fact, all we had to do was click on Karlgaard’s article link.) There we learn that the CEO of Reuters went to Columbia, likes Coldplay, and has a pretty hot wife, and two MySpace friends.
In our opinion, the amazing of MySpace is not only its ability to create your media, take pictures of yourself at an arms length, or put the cast Real World (minus the gay dude) on the site.
It is simply that MySpace acts as some kind of alternet universe, where Dessarae Bradford and Tom Glocer can co-exist peacefully and hilariously.
Media Wars, 2006 [Rich Karlgaard, Digital Rules]